https://community.hpe.com/t5/operating-system-hp-ux/top-amp-shortly-zombie-processes/m-p/3186154#M795899 Hi,<BR />whenn I look into the TOP of our ias so I can see shortly 1 or 2 Zombie processes and after a few seconds they are away.<BR /><BR />215 processes: 152 sleeping, 62 running, 1 zombie<BR /><BR />and the nice is going to near 50% Mon, 09 Feb 2004 05:44:19 GMT mario.schroeder 2004-02-09T05:44:19Z https://community.hpe.com/t5/operating-system-hp-ux/top-amp-shortly-zombie-processes/m-p/3186154#M795899 Hi,<BR />whenn I look into the TOP of our ias so I can see shortly 1 or 2 Zombie processes and after a few seconds they are away.<BR /><BR />215 processes: 152 sleeping, 62 running, 1 zombie<BR /><BR />and the nice is going to near 50% Mon, 09 Feb 2004 05:44:19 GMT https://community.hpe.com/t5/operating-system-hp-ux/top-amp-shortly-zombie-processes/m-p/3186154#M795899 mario.schroeder 2004-02-09T05:44:19Z https://community.hpe.com/t5/operating-system-hp-ux/top-amp-shortly-zombie-processes/m-p/3186155#M795900 This is the normal operation of a unix system. Processes that exit are zombies until their parent cleans up after them. A zombie does not take any resources that will bother you. Mon, 09 Feb 2004 05:45:36 GMT https://community.hpe.com/t5/operating-system-hp-ux/top-amp-shortly-zombie-processes/m-p/3186155#M795900 Mark Grant 2004-02-09T05:45:36Z https://community.hpe.com/t5/operating-system-hp-ux/top-amp-shortly-zombie-processes/m-p/3186156#M795901 Sure!<BR /> Mon, 09 Feb 2004 06:08:03 GMT https://community.hpe.com/t5/operating-system-hp-ux/top-amp-shortly-zombie-processes/m-p/3186156#M795901 G. Vrijhoeven 2004-02-09T06:08:03Z